Dipping and drying machine.



'E. T. RICHERT.

DIPPING AND DRYING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 12, 1913.

1 133520. Patented Mar. 30, 1915.

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, APPLICATION FILED MAY 12, 1913.

1,133,820. Patented Mar. 30, 1915.

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Witnesses EMANUEL 'n' RICHERT, or MASSILLON, 01110,

. COMPANY, OF MASSILLON,

ASSIGNOR TO THE REALITY RUBBER OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

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" To all whom it may concern:

- Be it known that I, EMAN L T. RICHBRT,

' a citizen of the United States, residing at Massillon,

provements in Dipping and Drying Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to machines used forv manufacturing articles by the, dipping process, and the object of the invention is to provide'ma'chin'es by which such articles as i are formed by repeatedly dipping a form in ways.

a part hereof wherein is a siccative solution and allowing the coating to dry between successive dippings.

With the foregoing and other objects in V View, the invention consists in the novel concombinatlon and arrangement of- I parts constituting the invention to be herestruction,

mafter specifically described and illustrated in the accompanying drawingswhich form shown the preferred embodiment of the invention, but it is to be understood that changes, variations and modifications can be resorted to which come within the scope of the claims here-- unto appended.

In the drawings in which similar-reference numerals indicate like parts in the different figures, Figure 1 is a view in side elevation of a machine embodying this invention, a portion of the mechanism being broken away to'betterillustrate the interior thereof; Figs. 2 and 3, are views in end elevation of the left and right sides respectively of the machine shown in Fi 1; Fig. 4, isa plan view of. a portion of a orm-carrler used ;-and, Fig. 5, is a vertical plan of a portion of the device used forconducting air to the forms, showing the same with the top thereof removed.

Referring to the drawings in detail, the device embodies a frame consisting of end members 1 and 2. The end member 1 consists of two upright members 3and 4mounted on a base 6 and spaced apart from each other and arranged in parallelism and with. their opposing faces grooved to constitute .Extendin across and mounted on the upper ends 0 the members 3 and 4 is a cross-bar 5. The pair of upright parallel members 7 and 8 with their opposing faces grooved to constitute ways and supporting at their upper ends a cross-bar 9 and mounted at their Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed May 12, 1913.

in the .county of Stark and State. of Ohio, have invented new and useful Imend members 1 4 mgs 14 in which are ing pins rotating the shaft 26.

end member 2 embodiesa Patented Mar. 3th, 1315. Serial m. 7,063.

lower ends on a base 10. The right end member 2 is also provided with an upright member 11- extending from the base 10 to the cross-bar 9 for a purpose to he later described.

Mounted on the cross-bars 5 and 9 of the and 2 is an inverted troughlike box .12 the ends of which are provided with partial closure devices 13 leaving openplaced fans'15. In the lower open portion of the box'12 are a series of longitudinally-extending slats or bars 16 partially supported near their ends by crossbars 17. At each end the longitudinal slats 16 are interrupted to form openings 18. The slats or bars 16 are spaced from each to provide longitudinal openings between them for a purpose to be later described.

Mounted in suitable bearings- 19 in the end members 1 and 2 is a rotatable shaft 20 hearing near its ends a pair of flanged pulleys 21 over each of which runs belts 22. The pulleys projectupwardly into the openings 13. The belts 22 are fastened to the pulleys at 23 by hold-fast devices. The longer ends of the belts 22 are connected with counterweights 24 and their opposite ends are connected to apertured members through which extends a shaft 26. On one end of the shaft 20 is a spur gear 27, with which meshes a driving spur pinion 28 to which is secured a crank 29 by which it is rotated. Mounted on suitable pins 30 on the uprights 11 and 8 are locking it against movement.

The; shaft 26 is .rotatably mounted in bearings 32 each positioned in a verticallyshiftable carriage 33 provided with projectwhich travel in the grooves in the opposing faces of the uprights 3-L and 7- 8. Mounted on one end of the shaft 26 is a handle 34 provided with apertures 35 at each end thereof and which is used for In order to lock the handle against movement an abutment 36 is employed which receives av pin 37 passed through one of the apertures 35 into a registering aperture in the abutment 36 thereby locking the handle 34 against movement.

Mounted-0n the shaft'26 are a pair of counterweights 38. Also mounted on the shaft 26 are a' pair of upright supports or standards 39 provided with transverse grooves. Adapted to be supported in the a pair of paw'ls 31 which 011- gage the teeth of the spur pinion 23 for grooves in the standards 39 is a formcarrier 40 consisting of end members 41 (see Fig. 4) provided with apertured ears 42 which' are received in the grooves in the standards 39 and held there through the medium of pins 43 passing through the apertures in the ears 42. Extending between the end members 41 are a plurality of slats or supporting members 44 provided with rings 45' into which the downwardly-extending pins vplaced at the ends of the forms 46am inserted for holding the forms securely in position thereon. Mounted below the form-bearing member 40 is a tank 46' constituting a bath.

The operation of the device is as follows:

i The bath 46 is first filled with any desired liquid with which it is desired to coat the form 46 carriedon the form-carrier 40. The pin 37 is first removed and the handle 34 is given a semi-rotation, causing the forms to be reversed in position and point downwardly. The pin is then inserted in the aperture in the opposite end of the handle 34 which locks it in position." The pawls are moved from engagement with the spur pinion 28 and the crank 29 rotated to lower the shaft 26 and the form-bearing member sufficiently to permit the forms to be dippedinto the bath 46' after which one of the pawls 31 isuthrown into engagement with the spur pin" '28 and the crank revolved in the opposite direction to raise the form-bearing member 40 out of the bath and when it has been sufficiently raised it is held supported by the pawl 31. The pin 35 is then removed and the position of the form-bearing member reversed and locked, and it will be noted in this connection that the abutment 36 is mounted on one of the carriages 33. After this is done, one of the fans 15 is rotated which drives air through the interstices between the slats 16 drawing it in from the outside through one opening 14' against the forms at the opposite end of the form-bearing member 10. After the forms at this end have been suliiciently dried the fan at the opposite end is rotated which performs identically the same operation of drying as does the first one for the forms borne on the opposite end of the formcarrier.

In practice, after each fan has been run singly below, the fans are both placed in motion and the forms are thereby quickly and rapidly dried. After this, the forms are re-dipped and the process repeated.

I claim: e

1. In a dipping machine, a shaft, channeled standards disposed adjacent to the terminals thereof, a form carrier arranged parallel with the shaft and embodying end members slidably secured within the standards, slats connecting the end'members for sup orting the forms, means for turning the sha t to invert the carrier, means for locking the shaft against movement, and a fan supported above the form carrier for driving air onto the forms on said carrier.

2. .In a di) in machine a counter weighted shaft, channeled standards disposed adjacent to the terminals thereof, a form carrier arranged parallel with the shaft and embodying end members slidably secured within the standards, slats connecting the end members for supporting the forms, means for turning the shaft to invert the carrier, means for locking the shaft against movement, above the carrier at each end thereof for driving air onto the forms on said carrier.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

v Witnesses: v

C. E. HUMPHREY, A. L. McCms'roox.

and fans supported EMANUEL T. RicHnR'r. w 

